Board Recap: A Look Back on a Strong Year, and a Preview of Challenges and Opportunities
As the books close from one fiscal year to the next, it’s a good time to both reflect on progress and set goals for more of it. This week the American Angus Association Board of Directors met to:
Detail a strong fiscal year, with positive bottom lines for the organization and its entities.
Celebrate program wins, from 1 million AngusVerifiedSM AngusLink® enrollments and a huge uptick in Data Driven Herd recognitions to numerous Ag Media Summit awards.
Discuss business, such as ongoing fertility research projects, an Angus Journal ® subscriber campaign to new members, and ways Certified Angus Beef is combating supply reductions.
Hear about updates on work in progress, from Angus Foundation funding opportunities to Angus Genetics, Inc. efforts to collect commercial data.
From branded beef tallow and TikTok advertising to heart health research, this recap episode condenses a week’s worth of meetings into a conversation that gets you caught up on the recent highlights in the breed.
HOSTS: Miranda Reiman and Mark McCully
GUESTS:
Jim Brinkley, 2026 president and chairman, has served on the American Angus Association Board of Directors for the past seven years. Along with their children, Crystal and Justin, Brinkley and his wife, Sherry, own 1,300 acres and 400 registered Angus cattle at Brinkley Angus Ranch (BAR) near Milan, Mo.
Rob Adams has been a lifelong resident of Union Springs, Ala., where his grandfather established their current farm in 1936 and bought the first Angus cattle in 1939. He is serving a second term on the Board and is currently chair of the Member Services Committee. Adams has been involved in the day-to-day operations since purchasing his first cow at 8 years old. The farm has transitioned over his lifetime from a diverse cattle and row-crop farm to registered Angus cattle and timber. Adams has also worked as a financial advisor for more than 35 years. He and his wife, Connie, have four children.
Roger Wann is a native of Poteau, Okla., and was raised on a multigenerational family commercial cow-calf ranch. While a student worker at the Oklahoma State University Purebred Beef Center, he says the value of the Angus cow herd at OSU was the last step in a learning curve that would lead him and his family into the Angus seedstock business. After completing a bachelor’s degree in animal science at OSU, Wann earned a master’s in physiology of reproduction from Texas A&M (TAMU). Wann is serving a second term on the Board of Directors and is currently vice chair of the Commercial Programs Committee.
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